The Wingfoot Clan (Aircraft edition), Vol. 2, No. 25 (June 24, 1942)

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AIRCRAFT EDITION
AMERICA FIRST IN THE Al&
AKRON, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1942 No. 25
Marlene gives a spirited plea .for everyone to
buy bonds to help win the war. The respotfse to
her plea is very enthusiastic.
Jean Weddington and Thana Davenport
take a ride in a jeep. Both of these women
are liberal buyers of War Bonds.
Jeeps hard on hose, Marlene, wearing Aircraft's Eight
says Charlotte Boe- Ball, gets a bouquet of flowers from
deker. the girls sellin&' War Bonds.
MOVIE STAR GIVES BOND DRIVE IMPETUS
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Buy Shares In American Victory,
Scores 119 Success
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To FIRST FULL AIR SCOUT SQUADRON
GETS CHARTER II ARMORY TONIGHT
An Aircraft company picnic, The War Bond Drive, of jeeps Saturday after-t
for alJ employees and their fam­ilies
on all sh~fts, will 'Qe held
at Summit Beach Park early in
August, Bid E'dmund, manager
of employe activities said today.
started at Aircraft last noon.
week, got a big lift from The lovely Marlene drew
the visit of Marlene Diet- a huge crowd to the review­rich,
movie star, and a flock ing stand outdoors between
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Mrs. Jean Weddington, employed in accounts payable, Plant
D, who "signed up" her pay each week for War Bonds, when
Marlene Dietrich gave impetus to the bond drive Saturday, is the
wife of Colonel L. D. Weddington of the air corps, now with
Uncle Sam's forces somewhere in the Pacific.
"Being in the army these many years, and in
Hawaii on December 7," said Mrs. Weddington
to The Clan, "I perhaps realize more fu lly than
some persons the importance of each one dqing
his part toward winning' this war. ·
"I figured that to my part in winning the
war was to come to a place like Akron, where
there is a great variety of jobs, hoping there
~ would be one for me.
"Since my working is toward my part in the
war, then quite naturally my entire salary will
go into War Bonds. All this is the easiest sort
of thing, and· I can't feel that it is anything
unusual in the way of patriotism.
"The time that I considered my patriotism was tested was
when (although I was given a deferment and could have stayed
in Hawaii) I made up my mind to leave my husband and return
to the mainland.
"I left because T felt I would only have been a mental hazard
in an emergency and in.would have taken as much food for me
~ as for a soldier who . is of military use over there.
"My daughter, Mrs. F. B. Shifflet, Jr., and my son, Jim , also
employed at Aircraft, are putting all they can into War Bonds.
"Can anyone do less?"
the plants.
The little jeeps, driving fu­riously
over the airport, turn­ing
on a dime, stopping within
their own length, gave addi ­tional
stimulus to the drive,
because everybody who signed
up that afternoon was giv"m a
ride.
The group of girls writing
up pay deduction blanks we;·e
kept busy two hours, RS :nen
and women from t he four
plants thronged in to sign up
for bonds and get their jeep
ride.
Featured was Thana Daven­port,
Plant C, whose husbanJ
is an army captain in the Pa­cific,
who, receiving three checks
at the same time for overseas
bonus, promptly decided that
she could best support her hus­band's
efforts by putting $1.000
into bonds.
Also Jean Weddington, Plant
D accounting, whose husband
is in the air corps overseas,
gives her every pay check en­tirely
for bonds.
The rally, which welcomed
Miss Dietrich, was in charge of
the labor-management commit­(
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Long a leader in the Boy
Scouts movement in America,
Akron and Goodyear step into
the national limelight tonight
at th2 Armo1·y with presenta­tion
of the charter of the first
full Air Scout Squadron in the
United States to P. W Litch­field,
chairman of the Goodyear
board.
The Goodyear Air Scout
Squadron, which w:ll be com­missioned
as the No. 1 Squad­ron
of the nation, was started
last fall with the approval of
the national executive commit­tee
of the Boy Scouts of
America. It comprises 38 boys,
headed by Squadron Leader
John R. Porosky. Ward T. Van
Orman is chairman of the
Squadron Committee.
Tonight's ceremonies, which
are being held under the aus­pices
of the national and .Akron
area counc'. ls of the Boy Scouts
of America, are expected to at­trnct
more than 4,0JO persons,
including aviation, rubber, civ ic
and Boy Scout executives.
Harter to Speak
The principal address will be
made by Congressman Dow
Harter, who will discuss the
significance of Air Scouting in
the new air age. Other speakers
will be Dr. James E. West,
chief scout executive; Lieuten­ant
George S. Welch, one of the
American air heroes of Pearl
Harbor, who is a former Boy
Scout, and Frank Hoover, vice
president of national council,
who -will present the official
charter to Mr. Litchfield.
John S. Knight, publisher of
the Beacon Journal, will serve
as master of ceremonies, while
Ralph S. Leonard, Akron coun­cil
president, will preside.
The programs w 11 be inter­spersed
with colorful pageant
and tableaux presentations by
members of Akron Boy Scout
troops numbering more than
400 youths.
Mr. Litchfield, as a member
of the national executive board,
is credited with being one of the
first men in the nation to see
the value of the Air Scout pro­g-
ram and urged the organi­zation.
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Now that the red blood of
America's sons has flowed, and
the eyes of t hou·sands of Ameri­can
mothers have filled with
tears, we, too, must stand ready
to make sacrifices.
We will have to work harder
and longer, yes, even on holi­days.
We must do without ma­terials
needed for military
purposes. The things we have
must be conserved.
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COLLEGE STAFF
TRAINING GROUP
NOW COMPLETED
First Contingent Under , Jones
Of Salary Personnel Is
Ready For Work
The first contingent of a spe­cial
college staff training group
has been completed, under the
supervision of C. G. "Charlie"
Jones, salary personnel, Plant
B. The group includes en­gineering
graduates from col­leges
all over the country, and,
after a four week's course that
will take them into nearly
every department at Aircraft,
they will be assigned to the de­partments
for w.hich they are
best su:ted.
For the purpose of getting
the men better acquainted, a
get-together party was held for
them Friday evening at Young's
Hotel.
There are 36 men in this first
group. The names of the men
aqd the colleges they repre­sent
follow:
Akron University- Charles Beckwith,
John Burkley, William King and Ed­ward
Wolf.
Ohio State-Philip P atch and Rich­ard
Haldet.
Ohio University- Wendell Brewer
and Bert Coffman.
Cincinnati University- Harry Biery,
John Guran and Bernard Raffel.
Texaa A. & M.-Homer Cates and
Jack Hammond.
Georgia Tech-Robert Kempton and
Jim W-eddington.
Illlnols Institute of Technology­Jack
Sorenson and Ted Zelinski.
Northwestern University-Christian
Petersen and Richard Fahrbach.
Yale--Martin Trachtenberg and Ed­ward
Pope Jr.
Kentucky University- Carl Staker.
Pittoburgh University- George Pro-best
and Joseph Sire.
Michigan State--Frank McCabe.
Iowa University- James Jorgenson.
Wisconsin University- Herbert John-son.
Clemson University-Benjamin Hy­der.
Colorado School of Mines-J ames
Hontas.
Ohio Northern-George Fiedler.
Illinois University- Marcellus Lech-tenberir
and Robert Feagan.
Purdue University- Art Edwards.
Duke University-Gordon CumminKa.
Pennsylvania University- John Bax-ter.
Columbia University- Robert Ames.
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Swindler Appointed
Engineer, Plant C
A. E. Swindler of Dept. 819
has been appointed engineer of
Plant C and will report directly
to E. G. Drake.
The following department
managers will report directly to
Swindler: H. W. Brown, tool
procurement; D. E. Dolle, plant
planning; T. A. Kolins, equip­ment
control; R. M. Rutherford,
power house.
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Wernecke Appointed
Hourly Payroll Head
A. H. Wernecke has been ap­pointed
manager of the hourly
payroll departments of all
plants in the Akron di vis ion of
Aircraft. He shares authority
over the hourly payroll super­visors
with the respective works
accountants for purposes of co­ordination
and standardization
of hourly payroll activities.
Wernecke in his new position
'Yill be responsible to J. E.
Caldwell, assistant comptroller.
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G. L. Warner was assistant
lilales manager and merchandiser
for a local department store be­fore
coming to Aircraft to work
in materials, Plant A, last
month. Warner enjoys ltunting
and fishing for recreation as
well as all outdoor sports.
Two Well-Known Aircraft Men Receive 25-Year Service Awards
J. V. Stout and H. E. Blythe Clyde Martin and 0. W. Weyrick
Two well-known Ai r c raft
men last week received dia­mond-
studded service pins and
$100 in cash in recognition of
their 25 years' service with the
Goodyear organization.
Harry E. Blythe, vice presi­dent
and general manager, made
the presentation to J. V. Stout,
superintendent of Plant C,
while Clyde Martin, manager of
traffic, shipping and ware­houses,
received his pin from
0. W. Weyrick, manager of
production planning.
Stout was born in 1892 in
Lancaster, Pa., and came to
Goodyear in 1917 on the produc­tion
squadron. The following
year he left to assist in chem­ical
warfare w.ork for the gov­ernment,
returning to the squad­ron
in 1919. Following his
graduation from the squadron
he went into the efficiency de­partment,
and in that work to
the California plant. In 1927
he was made personnel man­ager
there, returning to Akron
•in 193<), assigned to special
work under the late W. C.
State in tool des 'gn.
In 1933 Stout was named
manager of plant efficiency
and remained in that capacity
until he came to Aircraft in
May, 1941. He has two chil-dren,
Mary Lee, a senior at
Mt. Union College, and James
S., a sophomore at Wooster
College.
Clyde Martin, traffic man­ager,
was born and raised near
Connellsville, Pa., and came to
Goodyear June 14, 1917, in the
traffic department. He re­mained
in that department for
his entire Goodyear service. At
the time of his transfer to Air­craft,
September 22, 1941, he
was chief clerk in the traffic
department at Plant 1. He has
two girls, Phyllis, a teacher in
Ashtabula Harbor, and Suzanne,
employed in Plant D tool de­sign.
He lives at 919 Diagonal
road.
"Billy" Wright Very Busy Fellow With His
Planning Of Aircraft Educational Programs
W. C. "Billy" Wright, for the
past eight years manager of
s upervi ~iona l training for Good­year
world wide, is now very
busy as manager of educational
programs.
This department, with en­larged
personnel and greater
scope, includes the supervision­al
training classes at Aircraft
formerly headed by Darwin
Chase, now manager of the la­bor
department at Plant D.
After his graduation from
the squadron in 1922 "Billy"
went to the efficiency depart­ment,
later as assistant labor
manager and in 1927 as assist­ant
to the general superintend­ent.
In 1929 he was named gen­eral
foreman of the crude rub-ber
division, the n general
superintendent of tires, and in
1932 was transferred to Plant
2 as shift foreman. He remained
there until he was placed in
charge of the supervisional
training program in 1934.
"Billy" is married and has
four children, Joseph, 27, twins,
William and Catherine, 23, and
Margaret, 20, and two grand­children.
Goodyear is also deep­ly
instilled in the Wright chil­dren.
Joseph and William work
at Aircraft, Catherine works at
Plant 1, and her husband at
Aircraft. Billy is president of
the Goodyear Service Pin As­sociation
and member of the
board of trustees of the Good­year
Relief Association.
Back In "Old Home Town" From Arizona, Honor Mothers
Six former Akron women, wives of men connected with the Arizona plant of the Goodyear
Aircraft Corporation at Litchfield Park, Arizona, back in Akron for extended visits, decided to
have a party in O'Neil's tea room in honor of the mothers of several of the women. In the above
picture, left to right, Mrs. Paul Keller is standing behind her mother, Mrs. Ada B. Myers; Mrs.
Wayne A. Carlson is just back of her mother, Mrs. H. B. Hansard; Mrs. Ray Heisel and Mrs.
R. H. Mansfield; Mrs. Clifford Smith, who attended the luncheon, although her mother was not
present; Mrs. Richard Weber and Mrs. E. A. Myers; Mrs. W. D. LaDue and Mrs. Martha A.
Payne, Mrs. R. L. Welfley and Mrs. I. A. Kelsey.
SPECIAL SUMMER
SESSION TO BEGIN
JULY 6 AT G. I. U.
Speclal Catalogue Issued This
WHk Avallab .. At Per,onnel
Department
E. N. Jacobs, manager of
Goodyear Industrial University,
announces a special summer
session is to start on July 6,
courses in mathematics, blue­print
reading, draft ng, super­vision
and secretarial work to
be featured.
Jacobs has prepared a special
catalogue outlining the various
courses, giving details regard­ing
the plan. These catalogues
will be distributed through the
personnel department to persons
interested in the special summer
session.
Registration for classes
should be in as early as pos­sible.
July 6 is the final date for
registering.
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GOODYEAR RALLY
01 SUNDAY NIGHT
Alrcrafters Invited To Attend
Spectacular Event At
Seiberling Fleld
Because of the rain Mo··
night the Goodyear "Rub'?ut
The Axis" rally was postponed
until next Sunday night at 8:30
o'clock. The event is to 'be held
at Seiberling Field, and Air­crafters
are invited.
The labor-management com­mittee
of Good.year feels sure
that this program will be the
most spectacular of its kind
ever held in Akron.
The huge stadium has been
converted into a stage to ac­commodate
the more than 500
who are to appear on the pro­gram.
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FAMOUS GOODYEAR
RAFT 01 DISPLAY
Rubber loat, On Which -
Airmen Lhl'ed 34 Days, Te
le Shown At Rally
Built by Goodyear employes,
the rubber life raft, on which
three U. S. navy airmen sur­vived
34 days on the South
Seas, wm be shown publicly
for the first time at Goodyear'~
big "Rub Out The Axis" rally
next Sunday night at Seibe!:­linic
Field.
Preparations are being made
to enable every person at the
rally to examine the boat,
which still bears the marks,
with which the airmen checked
~ff each passing day, and blood­stains
from the albatross, terns
and. sharks which they cap­tured
and ate.
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Kathleen Bousum is an ardent
roller skater, and when she isn't
working she is generally to be
found in one of the local rolil~r
palaces. She is a graduate of
Stow High School and came to
Aircraft to work in the sheet
metal hand forming shop at
Plant C last month.
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HE'S CORPORAL NOW
In a letter just received by
his buddies in P.lant A, Ralph C.
Beiner, formerly employed in
bill of materials, writes that he
was recently promoted to the
rank of corporal. Ralph is sta­tioned
at Camp Forrest, Tenn.
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Army Air Corps Coast Guard Marine CorP8 Navy Army Navy Air Corps
ARMY NAVY OR MA.RINE CORPS?
Possibly only a few persons at Aircraft can identify the insignia worn by men in the armed services. Akron men are scattered
over the world, among them many from Aircraft, in various branches of our armed forces. Here are the official insignia of the
largest and best-known branches of our fighting forces:
Bill Selby Now
Technical Corporal
Donna Norris Selby, air-,
wheels, Plant B, recently heard
from her brother, Bill Selby,
formerly a member of the
Plants A and B police depart­ment.
He has been promoted to
technical corporal.
Bill left in January to join
the army and is stationed with
a service company armored
tank unit at Fort Knox, Ken­tucky.
Donna says her brother has
been instructing beginners the
last two months but that his
new rating recently c .a me
through.
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HACKETT TO ARMY
Alim Hackett, who for six
Weks has been assisting Bob
Fickes, manager of safety and
suggestions for Plants A and
B, will leave this week to be
inducted into the army June 29.
Jim was graduated from Miami
University in 1940 and came to
Aircraft in March, when he
joined the special development
class at Plant D.
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JOINS ARMY TODAY
Bob Tyndale , Grumman
stabilizers, Plant B, left Air­craft
last week for a short vaca­tion
to his home in Carroll,
Iowa, and was inducted into the
army today. Bob was graduated
from the Carroll County High
School in 1937 and has been at
Aircraft eleven months.
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Private Joe Maxwell
Private Joe Maxwell, sta­tioned
with the army at Fort
Hayes, Columbus, and formerly
employed in Consolidated
assembly, , Plant A, writes his
buddies that army life is fine
and that he enjoys it very much.
Joe was graduated from Cuya­hoga
Falls High School in 1938
and was trained as an airplane
machinist before coming to Air­craft
last Septemb~·· Before
helping to build real planes his
hobby was building model
planes. He left for the army
May 20 . .
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Major M. D. Tremelin is sworn in as lieutenant colonel in the army air forces by J. S. Thatch
as the ollicer's daughter, Jeannette, proudly witnesses the ceremony.
More than 30 Aircraft officials
attended a dinner at noon Sat­urday
on Manchester road hon­oring
the recent promotion of
Major M. D. Tremelin to the
rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Lt.
Col. Tremelin, a native Akron­ite,
is the army air forces' resi­dent
representative attached to
Aircraft, and has been here
since last September.
development division of Good­year.
He continued in that divi­sion
until 1918, when he entered
the navy and was commissioned
an ensign in the naval reserve
flying corps.
Lieut. Col. T·remelin's experi­ence
in ballooning is well known
to many over the country and
to many at Goodyear. His chief
feat in that connection, he says,
was in the national balloon race
of 1911, when he and R. A. D.
Preston, also a Goodyear man,
flew from St. Louis, Mo., to Con­stance,
Kentucky.
After leaving the navy
Tremelin operated an engineer­ing
business of his own, but in
the spring of 1941 he put h is
business aside to re-enter active
military service, joining the air
corps and later being. placed in
his present post at Aircraft. He
lives at 814 Broad street, Cuya­Lieut.
Col. Tremelin's promo­hoga
Falls.
tion was effective June 1 and he
was sworn in last week by J. S.
Thatch, customer engineering
contact, Plant C, a notary
public, while his daughter, Jean­nette,
proudly watched the cere­mony.
f F there is righteousness in the heart, there will be
beauty in the character. If there is beauty in the
character, there will be harmony in the home. If there
is harmony in the home there will be order in the
nation. Where there is order in the nation, there will be
peace in the world.
Lieut. Col. Tremelin was asso­ciated
with the lighter-than-air
industry many years ago. He
first came in contact with this
line of work when he helped in
the construction of one of the
first airships built in America­the
original Akron - in 1911,
and which met with disaster in
that same year.
The accident to the ship put
an end temporarily to the light­er-
than-air phase of work for
Tremelin and he entered into
experimental activities in the
DALE DAD NOW
Dale Peters, Consolidated
Wings, Plant A, announced re­cently
the birth of a son, Ken­neth
Dale. Kenneth is the first
child in the Peters home.
TRIBUTE TO LIEUT. COL. M. D. TREMELIN
To Lieut. Col. Myrl D. Tremelin:
Well done, thou good and faithful servant,
thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will
make ·thee ruler over many things."
Sir, we know of no other appropriate words with
which to express our congratulations on your pro­motion.
We know you represent all these words
expressed.
Signed,
Army Air Forces Personnel,
Goodyear Aircraft Corporation.
Floasin Leaves For
Induction Into Army
John Floasin, supervisor in
follow-up, Plant D, left Monday
for induction into the army. He
was honored last week at a
party attended by 75 of his fel­low
employes and friends at
Aircraft, who presented him
with a camera. John is a grad­uate
of Garfield High School.
He had been at Aircraft 15
months. His sister, Ann, is in
standard practice, and his broth­er,
Dan, is in materials, both
in Plant B.
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HOME FOR VISIT
Milan Frase, formerly em­ployed
in materials, Plant B,
and now stationed at Camp
Leonard Wood, Mo., with the
army, was home for a short
visit over the week-end. His
father, E. J. Frase, works in
standard practice, Plant.
CHORISTERS WILL
SINO FOR 3,000
Goodyear Choristers will sing
"Deep River" and "The Green
Cathedral" for the entertain­ment
of 3,000 young people at­tending
the state convention of
the Christian Endeavor ~ociety
Friday evening at the Grace
Reformed Church.
The concert will mark the
first public appearance of the
Choristers under the direction
of their new leader, Mrs. Litta
B. Kilgore, and also the begin­ning
of a summer of uninter­rupted
rehearsals. The organ­ization
is p I a n n i n g a radio
broadcast and has been invited
to sing for various local groups.
Announcement has been made
by Mrs. Kilgore that the Tyro­lears,
the male chorus. will
hold their first rehearsal Tues­day
evening following the regu­lar
rehearsal. All men, young
and old, who enioy singing are
invited to attend.
The Choristers held a bingo
party after their rehearsal last
week. Mrs. McChesney and
Mrs. Davis were in charge of
refreshments.
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See Gruver About
Bowling Schedules
The presidents of° all bowling
leagues are requested to con­tact
Al Gruver immediately to
arrange for their respective
league schedules for the 1942-
43 season.
New teams wishing to or­ganize
leagues sho.I!.!~ also see
Gruver at the Goodyear alleys.
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Honor Three Going
To Armed Forces
Almost the entire personnel
of the Airwheels department,
Plant B, turn,ed out for a weiner
roast last week at Wingfoot
Lake, 'honoring three of their
fellow workers who this month
are going into the armed serv­ices.
Short talks were made by
Steve Segi, general foreman of
the department, and Billy
Fowler, chairman of the shop
committee. The men who are
leaving are Bob Lontchar and
Charles Murphy to the army,
and Dick Sayre, who enlisted in
the navy.
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JOl;J.NNY SAYS HELLO
Johnny Hill, who is in the
navy somewhere, has written
.The Clan that he is getting
along fine and has asked that
The Clan say hello for him to
the "gang in the ·cable shop."
He says "the navy life is great
and everybody in the crew is
happy." Johnny writes that he
is on a sub chaser and that when
his outfits sinks one of Hitle1·'s
submarines a photo of the ship
going down will be sent to his
buddies at Aircraft.
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Gels "Y For Victory" Haircut On Dare
Seeing pictures in the papers of children in wartorn Europe
-hungry, emaciated, poorly clad, huddled in bomb-proof shelters,
K. T. Ritterbusch, purchasing department, got out a picture taken
recently of his own youngster, compared it with those in the
newspaper.
"The best of all reasons why people should buy War Bonds,"
said Ritterbusch, "so our children will be spared such horrors."
Neighbors have told Ritterbusch that the picture of his little
baby is good enough to be used in a poster. And they're right.
Sidelights is a good name for
it, because the Great White
Way is dimmed "way down"
now. Many of the spectacular
ftashing signs are gone and the
checkered lights of tall build­ings,
which used to make so
striking an appearance from
the bay are out now. No lights
above the fifth ftoor. Otherwise
the glow extending out to sea
would silhouette the outlines of
passing freighters, reveal their
presence to slinking enemy
subs. • • •
Fewer cars on the streets
since the gas ration:ng. You
can even find a place to park
along the curb. Parking ga­rages,
which formerly got 75
cents a day or $15 to $25 a
month, are having plenty of
headaches.
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The city is quieter after dark,
though the people who get
downtown or stay downtown
seem to enjoy themselves as
much as ever. Cocktail bars do­ing
a rushing business. • • •
Strange signs in business of­fices.
The lobby of a big com­pany
is an air raid shelter.
Stretchers and first aid kits in
easy reach. Evacuation drills.
Highway signs to show how to
get out of town, from wherever
you may happep to be. Printed
bulletins in every kitchen with
full instructions: ' • • •
Most every one is enlisted in
some war activity or other.
Your lunch companion yawns
over the menu card, excuses
himself. "Had to report for air
warden duty at 4 o'clock this
morning," he explains. "And
don't think it is any tin soldier
business, either. A retired army
major is in charge of our sec­tion,
with some old line army
sergeants, who drill the heck
out of us. Those boys don't
fool. It's real army discipline.
Good for us though, I guess." • • •
You talk to an engineer from
a big defense industry. "We
had the last word in plant
lighting," he says. "Acres un­der
glass, to get as close to
daylight conditions as possible.
N'ow we've had to black it all
out. Cost more than a million
dollars to do it. But it's the
war." • • •
"I understand you boys can
get all the gas you need," you
say to the taxi driver, by way
of conversation. "So can any­body
else," he says. "Listen,
you drive in and get your gas,
see? And you pay for it see?
Then give him a tip, and so
what! He forgets about taking
up your coupon. It's a cinch if
you know how." • • •
"I was coming in from Min­neapolis
last week," one man
says. "And they stopped the
train to take on some army of­ficers.
Not enough berths to
go around, so the conductor
roused people up, made 'em
dress and sit in the smoking
car till morning. They got
enough room just before they
got to me. I would have been
next." • • •
The fact of war seems to
have come more fully home to
New York than to people in the
interior, but they are taking it
cheerfully and in good spirit.
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$fessed
c$oenls
M. 0. Neubert, Consolidated
\"'.ing assembly, reports the ar­rival
of a baby girl, Linda
Louise, as another ray of sun­shine
in the Neubert home.
Linda Louise has a two-year-old
sister, Judith Ann.
• • •
C. A. Robinson, special de­velopment
school, Plant D an­nou~
c~d the birth of a daughter,
Ch.nstme Rae, at City Hospital
Friday, June 12. The child, first
for the Robinsons, weighed six
pounds.
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.Dor!'thy Borosky and John
R1velh, both employed in air­wheels,
Plant B, announced
their engagement this week. No
date has been set for the wed­ding.
_,
AIRCRAn CLASS
Pled9e Had IHn Sent To Head
Of U. S. Navy By
Graduates
Members of the third gradu­ating
class of the special de­velopment
school at Plant D
are proudly exhibiting a letter
this week, received from Secre­tarv
of the Navy Frank Knox,
in recognition of the class mot­to,
sent to him in the form of
a scroll, pledging their united
effort in building the navy plane,
the FG-1.
Secretary Knox, in his
letter, says: "It is a most
heartening token of the
spirit of the times-a spirit
of an awakened and deter­mined
America, devoting
every ounce of energy to
the drive for victory. Yours
is an important task to our
war elJort. We depend upon
your talents, your effort
and your loyalty, as much
as upon those of the men
on the battlefronts. I am
confident that your pledge
will be more than redeemed
in the days to come."
The pledge, which was for­warded
to the Secretary by
Commander C. V. S. Knox, in­spector
of naval aircraft, fol­lows:
"We, the third graduating
clc:.::s of the special development
:::::'.1001, Goodyear Aircraft Cor­poration,
representing those
who have graduated before us,
and those who will follow, do
hereby pledge our united tal­ents,
our efforts and our loyalty
to the 'on time' construction of
the FG-1, so that it may hur­ridly
serve the ultimate purpose
for which it is being constructed.
"Our talents because of the
variety of ideas which are nec­essary
in this new era of air­plane
construction.
"Our efforts one hundred per
cent because this must be a
full time job until such time as
our enemies are submerged in
defeat.
"Our loyalty because of the
seriousness of this cause de­mands
loyalty to our country,
to our fighting men, our com­pany
and to each other."
The pledge was signed by all
of the 28 men in the class.
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Must Fill Out Leave
Of Absence Form
Announcement has been made
by the. labor department that all
hourly rated employees who
wish to take time off from their
work in excess of five days must
secure a -leave of absence.
Employees seeking such
leaves -of absence must make
their request, in writing, to
their foreman or department
manager. Forms for "Leave of
Absence Application" may be
obtained from the labor depart­ment.
- KEEP ' EM FLYING-TREADWAY
AT HEAD
Latest department to be es­tablished
at Aircraft is Dept.
247, printing and paper prod­ucts,
which will be located in
Walter Maslowski, whose pate experienced unusual adorn·
ment because he refused to permit his buddies to run a "blulf"
on him.
This is a story about a "V
For Victory" haircut. It started
with a bet. The "boys" in tool
design, Plant C, where Walter
Maslowski is employed, con­ceived
the idea that it would be
a fine thing if one of the group
could become a living exempli­fication
of the "V For Victory"
slogan.
A sμiall bet was suggested
that nobody in the department
would dare to get the victory
haircut. Later the "pot" reached
$10, and on up it grew to $15,
$20 and $25. When the $25
figQre was reached, Walter said
to his associates: "I'm your
man."
Walter called on several
barbers in Akron to give his
bushy pate the desired "V" trim
but none would agree to his
plans and specifications. How­ever,
all were willing to shave
his head as slick as a billiard
ball but would "cut no fancy
figures."
Finally Walter pe1i;uaded his
father,· who had done some
hair-cutting in a way-perhaps
not a good way- to do the work
but cautioned him to be careful
and do a good job. The senior
Maslowski, not an artistic cra­nium
manipulator or capillary
abridger, took a five-finger grip
on an old pair of shears, all the
time being cautious lest he nick
a neat divot from his son's
pate, but Walter sa'd that even
if a sljce of cuticle happened to
be removed he'd not squeal like
a shoat caught under a barbed
wire fence.
With the job done, Walter ap­peared
in Plant C, where he re­moved
his lid for the edification
ACCIDENTS HELP THE AXIS
of employes and it was then
that a fellow offered to pay for
all Walter could eat in the
cafeteria if he'd appear sans
skypiece, which Walter did.
Later in the day associates of­fered
him $5 if he'd dr.
through downtown Akron ba
headed. So another $5 wa
added to Walter's treasury, for
he accepted the challenge im-mediately.
·
Very likely Walter Maslowski
has the distinction of being the
only man in America with a
"V For Victory" haircut. He
says he may kee-p the pate
shaved until the United Nations
"Rub Out The Axis."
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Bill Roberts, inspection su­pervision,
dope shop, Plan~
was married Tuesday to
June Hoffmeyer of ·Akron
Grace Reformed Church. Miss
Hoffmeyer was graduated from
Kent State recently. Bill at­tended
the same university. The
couple will take a week's trip
through the Smoky mountains.
They will make their home in
the Hill Chateau on North Hill.
• • •
The Rev. Fr. V. P. Haas will
celebrate the nuptial mass at
the wedding of Miss Betty Sue
McGuire of Akron and Paul
Kelly, tool design, Plant C. The
ceremony will take place at St.
Martha's C ~ u r c h ~aturday,
June 27. Miss McGuire is a
graduate of Kent State Uni­v_
ersity. Paul was graduated
from St. Vincent's High School. • • • •
Plant B. The department will be llll"'H-HoJr_~
under the supervision of J . P.
Treadway.
Wedding bells rang Sunday,
June 14, for Pauline Nestor,
nacelle manufacturing, Plant C,
and Durwood Dumire, stores
records, Plant A. The ceremony
was performed at St. Andrews
Episcopal Church. They ai:-e
making their home at 339
Ruckel road.
- KEEP ' EM FLYING-YOUR
VICTORY GARDEN
Victory gardeners should plan
this year to improve their soil
for next year by adding humus.
Humus adds greatly to the
water-holding capacity of sandy
soils and makes clay more
workable.
- KEEP 'EM FLY ING-Winnie
Sykes, estimating and
statistical analysis, Plant B, has
announced her engagement to
Robert Williams, apprentice
electrician, Plant 2. The couple
has set Saturday, July 18, for
the wedding, which will be held
in the North Hill Church of
Christ. Both are graduates of
N'orth High.
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AMERICA l'tan Ill 1W8 Ma
MARK L. FELBER EDITOR
Published Wrekl:v in the interest of Goodyear Aircraft Corporntion Employees
Offices in Goodyear Hall- Entrance, 1216 East MRrket Street
Phones---Bell Extenaion 67 6--Houee 328
Vol. 2 Wednesday, June 24, 1942 No. 25
Unless and until America is the most powerful nation
in the air, our safety, our freedom and our standard of
living will not again be what it has been in the past.
P. W. Litchfield.
TURN IN ALL YOUR SCRAP RUBBER-IT
WILL HELP "RUB OUT THE AXIS"
GOODYEAR today is in the midst of an intensive
production campaign to do its full share in the
great struggle to "Rub Out The Axis."
However, in connection with our well-defined plan
for production within the Goodyear organization, let us
also join wholeheartedly in the battle for scrap rubber,
for which President Roosevelt has {!leaded. No amount
is too small. Every pound is needed. Your country
needs it now, so take whatever you have to your near­est
gas station. You may donate it if you wish or you
will be paid one cent a pound for it.
Many historians who record accounts of this World
War are likely to single out this or that land battle,
this or that naval engagement, this or that conflict in
•
air, or this or that city destroyed by bombs as con­tuting
the deciding factor in the ultimate victory.
But listen, Goodyearites, if you take the word of
many men who keep a constant check on the pulsebeat
of our nation's strength and the strength of our allies,
the outcome of this terrible war may depend largely on
how well we perform on the scrap front.
All of us have long been aware that millions of men
in- the field are of no value if they have no equipment
with which to fight. More slowly is coming our realiza­tion
that the soldiers of production may have no ma­terial
with which to produce this equipment-and rub­ber
is a commodity sorely needed-NOW!
Scrap rubber not only plays an essential part in the
preparation of many vital materials produced by Good­year
but it is an important factor in the manufacture
. of products made by other companies for our men on
the firing line. Just remember that the scrap rubber
house becomes an arsenal of victory, and piles and piles
•
that scrap rubber loom more valuable right now than
s of gold.
That old tire in your basement may be the means
of saving a soldier's or sailor's life. That leaky garden
hose may be a factor in saving the life of your own
brother or son.
Let us all get into this battle of scrap rubber. Let's
do our full share in complying with the plea of President
Roosevelt, commander-in-chief of our armed forces.
Movie Star Boosts Bond Sales
(Continued from Page 1)
tee, with Darwin Chase as
chairman. He introduced Harry
Blythe, Major C. S. Robinson
of Columbus, a jeep skipper,
Ensign John F. Wulfman of the
navy, and W. H. Fowler of the
aircrafters' union, who pledged
to support the drive on the
part of the men in the plant
and said they would not be
satisfi ed with 90 per cent par­ticipation
but were going after
it 100 per cent.
The nine g irls chosen as re­ceptionis_
ts for Miss Dietrich,
from the offices were: Dorothy
Keiser, lobby, Plant B; Ruth
Roberts, purchasing; Jean Bes­sire,
Plant D personnel; Eliza­beth
Hurley, personnel records;
Marjorie Daubenspeck, person­nel;
Ann Johnson, personnel;
Mary Zeh1 personnel; Helen
Oehleft, personnel, and Mildred
Caughron, personnel. ,From the
factory : Noma E;a ster, 368;
Gladys Brown, 367; Emily Lutz,
366; Wilma Frese, 366; Natalie
Myers, 368; Rosemary Purdf,
345 ; Ann F odor, 345; Marjorie
Shepherd, 367, and Betty Neu­lan,
364.
The bond sales girls selected
to go through the gathering
were drawn from the factory
and office forces. The girls
from the general office were:
Dixie Shifflet, Betty Johnson,
Azelene Lucas, Polly Berno,
Josephine D'lanni, Phyllis Bald­win,
Rosalie J acobson, Constance
Clapp, Mary Louise Wilcox,
Charlotte Boedeker, Helen J en­kins,
Anne Floasin, Mary
Spayne, Betty Gaston, Jackie
Roush, Billie Abney, J eanette
Matson, Ruth McDonald, Gayle
Lynn and Juanita Curtis. Those
from the f actory were: Anne
Cassidy, Mabel Stiffler, Vera
Wince, Gene Bair, Millie Was­son,
Anna Kennedy, Roberta
Billings, Abbie Offret, Edith
Swanson, Virginia Phlieger,
Inez Isner, L. R. Stewart, E.
H. Dixon, D. J . Reninger and
Phyllis Fatko.
The joint labor-management
suggestion committee last week
distributed $250 in s p e c i a l
awards to nine employees, whose
suggestions were selected as
outstanding in the May special
eight-ball suggestion contest.
In the above photo, C. R. Wil­son,
second from right, co-chair­man
of the committee, presents
C, Bivins with a check for
IT was Geo.rg e. . Bl.ak e's fault
FOR I could see right away • • •
THAT he w.as ..j us.t f ascinated BY the army jeeps • • •
DOING H1e.ir d.e. vi.l's dance ALL over the airport
• • •
HE couldn't even keep his mind • • •
ON the famous Dietrich legs • • •
THOUGH maybe when anybody • • •
HAS photographed as many
legs • • •
AS George has in his lifetime • • •
IT gets to be routine • • •
ENOUGH legs, he figured once • • •
THAT laid end to end would • • •
REACH to Hollywood and back • • •
ANYHOW George was dying to • • •
RIDE in one of the jeeps • • •
AND he says let's ride out there • • •
AND I'll set up my camera
• • *
ALONGSIDE that cinder pile
* * *
AND you ride through it
* * *
AND tell 'em where to go
* * *
WELL sap that I was • * •
I FELL for it • • •
AND on my way out
* * *
I COULD feel my back teeth • * •
BOUNCING out
* * •
AND my legs felt like pretzels
• * •
BUT Old George was shouting
* * *
RIDE 'EM cowboy
* * *
AND said it was more f un
* * *
THAN riding a cowcatcher
$37.50. McGurk and E. P. Min­near,
both of airship assembly,
s u b m i t t e d their suggestion
jointly and split a $75 award.
Looking on are, left to right,
Joe Gruver, sheet metal form­ing,
who received a check for
$75 and C. Bivins, Plant C shop
welding, W. D. McGurk, who re­ceived
a $50 award.
BUT curiously enough
* * *
WHEN we got to earth
* * *
I WAS sold on 'em too
* • •
AND on the way home • • •
KEPT getting crazy notions
• • *
ABOUT driving my sedate car
* • *
OVER curbstones and yards
* • •
AND doing a serpentine
• * *
AROUND the telephone poles
* * *
AND see if I could get it
* • •
TO stand up on its hind legs
* * *
WHEN I stopped suddenly
* * *
LIKE the jeeps did
* • *
AND if ·it weren't that • * •
I REMEMBERED about my
tires
* * *
I'D probably tried it
* * •
I THANK YOU
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ARCHERY CLUB
Goodyear Archery Club will
resume activity this Friday eve­ning
at Seiberling Field and
will use its range there every
Friday evening thereafter. All
Aircraft employees interested in
the sport are invited to make an
appearance at the field.
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IN AIR CORPS
Paul Shope, plant p!anning,
Plant B, left Aircraft Monday
and will report for duty as a
naval air corps machinist to­morrow.
Paul was graduated
from West High School and at­tended
Akron University two
years before coming to Aircraft
to work two years ago.
- KEEP 'EM FLYINQ-Due
to a lack of surplus tires
and also to the fact that his wife
couldn't get her vacation to co­incide
with his, Bud Price, cost
accounting, Plant B, decided to
spend his vacation at home. His
wife, Carolyn, works in Inter­Plant,
Plant 1.
Inquisitive
lchahocl
Question: Do you think na­tional
conventions and other
meetings of a similar nature
should be called off for the dura­tion
of the war?
Bill Moore, car shop: "There
are arguments on both sides of
that question. But I think that
those conventions of an educa­tional
nature should be held.
Others should be cancelled."
Dale Simms, B-26 flaps: "Be­cause
of the difficulties of
transportation and also of tires
and gas I think they should be
discontinued."
Vernon LaRue, Curtiss pre­assembly:
"Yes, I think ~he
transportation system should be
kept free for emergency uses
an'd for troop movements."
Agnes Brooker, Curtiss
assembly: "No I think people
should be allowed to go to the
various conventions that inter­est
them. It helps keep up the
national morale. After all we
can't keep everyone shut up in
an icebox for the duration of
the war."
'Marie Cox, inspection, dope
shop: "I think they should be
called off because of the short­age
of gas and rubber and con­gested
railway transportation. I
believe the people should stay
at home this year."
Thomas Greer, Consolidated
fins: "Yes, because I think the
railroads and the highways
should be kept open for those
who are contributmg directly to
the war effort."
Pete Wychowanec, PBM-3
stabilizers: "I think if the con­ventions
are educational and
contribute to the wai;:effort they
should be held, but otherwise
they should not."
Jim Basil, Consolidated parts:
"No, I think they are a JrOOd
factor in maintaining national
morale, and as such should be
retained."
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{ t
{ Jual a Few ;::;,;pba Contain- ! i in9 Biia ol S.ue and
' Noueue.
\~··--··--··~··--·~ ................ ·~·~···
Judge: "Your wife eays you have
her terrorized."
Prisoner : " Well, Your Honor- "
Judge: "I do not ask this In my of­ficial
capacity, but as man to man,
do you understand ?"
Prisoner: '"Yes, Your Honor ."
Judge : " What's your secret?" • • •
It'• a fine thins: to be a s;entl•
man, but It'• an awful handlrap
In a s;ood ars;ument. • • •
Scotchmnn: "How much a re your
eggs?"
Grocer: "Two cents for the gOod
ones and one cent for t he cracked
or\ es.''
Scotchman : " Well, crack me a
dozen." • • •
Praloe 1tlmulatea a s;ood man
but may lull Into eomplaeene1 one
who 11 not 10 irood. • • • "It wae really a toss-up this morn­ing
whether I played aolf or went to
church."
"Really 7"
"Y cs, I had to tosa fifteen tlmee
before I got golf." • • •
Wife: "The doctor Bllld at once that
I needed a stimulant and aaked to aee
my tongue."
Huaband : "Good Heavens I I hope
he didn't give you a etlmulant for
that,"
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CUTS NUMBER OF SOFTBALL TEAMS
TO 39 TO INJECT MORE INTEREST
Only Two Of Six L e a CJ u e s Affected By C h a n CJ e
Authorized By B i d E d m u n d, Head Of
Employes' Activities At Aircraft
In an effort to bring the offi­cial
standings of all Divisional
Softball Leagues up to date and
inject more interest in th~ir re­spective
pennant races, ~1d ~d­mund
has dropped five inactive
teams from competition.
Only two of the six leagues
were affected by the Edmund
ruling. Three teams were
dropped from the Second !<'light
League and two from the Fight­er
League, bringing the total
number of teams now compet­ing
in the six leagues down
to 39.
Three I e a g u e s - Pursuit.
Bomber and Second Flight-will
complete their first half sched­ules
this week. As soon as the
class A, Bomber and Pursuit,
le!lgues complete their first half
schedule all class B regular and
pontponed games will be sched­uled
on a five night _a week
basis until the first half is
finished.
Consolidated Stabilizers of
the Second Flight League is
the only team to definitely sew
un the first half championship
of its league. The remaining
five leagues are still wide open
affairs.
Six teams last week tasted
their first defeat of the season
including the Junius All-St'.lrs
and Engineers of the Pursuit
League. Other teams losing
MEN SHOW MUCH
INTEREST IN OPEN
DOLF TOURNAMENT
Only Shr Women Slttt•d But
Moro Aro Expected To
Tako Part
A lively interest is being
shown in the first annual Air­craft
open golf championship
tournament, by men, as with
more than 160 persons signed
up only six are women, but
more are expected to be added
to the list.
Bid Edmund, manager of em­ployee
activities, stresses the
point that the tournament is for
men and women, and since at
least sixteen persons are needed
for a complete flight, he urges
that more girls enlist before the
deadline, which is 4:30 o'clock
p. m. Friday of this week.
The matches and qualifying
rounds will be played at Good
Park, and all qualifying scores
'must be completed and the cards
attested by Edmund not later
than 4:30 o'clock p. m., Tues­day,
June 30.
The schedule of matches for
the regular tournament play
will be posted in a conspicuous
place in each of the four Air­craft
P.lants beginning July 6
and will continue for the dura­tion
of the tournament. In this
way individual and flight pro­gress
can be followed day by
day.
their initial game of the sea­son
were Martin B-26 and Ma­chine
Shop in the Fighter
League and Sheet Metal D and
Jigs in the Glider League.
BOMBER LEAGUE
Teatn W. L.
8-Ball Aces . . . . . . . . . 4 0
Simm's 94 1-ers ..... .. 4 I.
Mnchine Forming I 2
Con. Butchers . . . . . . . I 2
Sub-Sinkers . . ... . .. . I 3
Aircraft Stor<s . . . . . 0 3
Last week"s results: Sim m's
27, Sub-Sinkers 2.
PURSUIT LEAGUE
Pct.
1.000
.800
.333
.333
. 250
.000
941-ers
Team W. L. Pd.
Junius All -Stars ..... 4 I .800
Screwy Machinist. .. 4 I .800
Engineers . . . . . . . . . . . 2 I .667
t;rurnman ........... 1 2 .333
Nlte Hawks .... ... .. 0 3 .000
Mush Bnllers . . . . . . . . 0 3 .000
Lnst week's results: Screwy Machina
i•ts 2, Nite Hawks 0; Junius All­Stars
7, Eng in ee rs 4; Screwy Machin­ists
6. Junius All-Stars 5.
FIGHTERS LEAGUE
Teem W. L. Pct.
Gen. Stooes .. .. .. .. . 5 0 1.000
Jiggers 932 ......... 4 0 1.000
Machine Shop . . . . . . . 3 I . 750
Dept. 970-D . . . . . . . . . l 4 .200
Airships .......... .. 0 4 .000
Herd-S-We1,:e 1·s ..... 0 4 .000
Last week'• resu lts: Jiggers 932
17, Machine Shop 3.
K-SHIP LEAGUE
Team W. L. Pct.
Tool & Die .. . .. . .. . 3 0 1.000
Rice's All-Stars . .. .. I 0 I .000
Straighteners . . . . . . . l 0 1.000
Soar Diver• ..... . .. . 2 2 .500
Stress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 . 500
Dept. 970-B l 2 .333
Dept. 952 . . . . . . . . . . . I 2 .333
Receiving 219 ....... 0 3 .000
Last week's results : Rice's All­Stars
IO. Stress 4.
SECOND FLIGHT LEAGUE
Team W. L . Pct.
Con. Stnbilizers . . . . . 7 0 1.000
Flying K's .... . ..... 4 2 .667
Con. Wings .. . . ... .. 4 2 .667
Grumman . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3 .568
Hand Forming .... .. 4 3 .568
Lnst week's results: Con. Stabiliz­e
rs 7, Flying K's 6.
GLIDER LEAGUE
Team W. L. Pct.
DeYoung's Demons .. 3 0 1.000
Materials . . . . . . . . . . . 3 0 1.000
Sheet Metul-D . . ..... 3 l .750
Police .... . . .. ... ... . 2 2 .500
Jigs 314 ............. 1 I .500
Finalists . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 2 .000
P . B. M. .. ........ .. 0 3 .000
St. Practice . . . . . . . . . 0 3 .000
Last week's results: Materials 3,
Sheet Meta l-D 1: Police 9, Standard
Practice 0: Sheet Metnl-D 13, P. B.
M. 5.
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LEASED BY AIRCRAFT
Announcement has been made
of the establishing of Dept. 374
which will be known as the Bar­berton
Machine Shop, 388-392
Newell Street, Barberton. The
machine shop has been leaseo
by Aircraft. J. E. Flaker will
be in charge of the department
and will be responsible to 0. W.
Weyrick, manager of productiou
planning.
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! CONFORM· TO LA w I ! REGARDING SPEED t
tl Management at Air- i craft has instmcted Air- :
i craft drivers to regulate '
• their speed to cor..form to I
{ the law. Any employee
1
:
1 who issues instructions to :
i drivers to drive over 40 !.
r miles per hour to save
i time will render himself, '
t rather than the driver of / i the car, responsible for :
: any fines incurred. { I i ........... "'"''"'"°''-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-
........ ~- ......... -
BILLY WRIGHT, supervisional training, says it's good
enough for any man if it's good enough for Uncle Sam
of the cartoons, who never had cuffs on his trousers. Arid
Billy also says he won't admit that the· so-called "motor
age" is dead until someone starts building a livery stable
on a parking lot.
In Five Crackup11 But Never Seriously Injured
1':11110 Green is a race driver- he was until this year, but
nuw he is beginni11g· to have his doubts. He works in the sheet
metal hand forming shop at Plant C, but still pilots h:s midget
racer around the tracks at Sportsman's Park and the Rubber
Bowl twice a week.
His doubts spring from the fact that all his luck this year
has been bad. In 1940 Elmo won the Ohio bank track champion­ship,
entered in 100 races, averaging eight race~ a week for two
weeks at one time and was voted the most consis­tent
money of the year. Last year he won the Ohio
point championship, winning 36 races and running
out of the money only three times in the entire
year.
This year, however, he has been able to finish
only four races, winning two of them. In the oth­ers
he suffered a broken drive shaft on his car,
cracked his motor, blew out a piston wall and had
several flat t ires. Personally, though, Elmo has
been very lucky in ten years of racing. He has been
in five crackups, but has never been seriously in­jured
or suffered any broken bones. An expert me-chanic,
he hails from Phoen·x, Ariz., where he for- Green
merly built racing cars. His purpose in coming to Aircraft sev­eral
months ago was to give his talents as a mechanic to a war
industry and at the same time be close enough to several eastern
rac:ng tracks to keep in the i·acing game.
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War Is Brought Home To Jane Cleckner
Jane Cleckner has an ax to grind. For one so young she
harbors some very bitter thoughts, and all of her bitterness is
directed at the Axis. Because she thinks the way she C:oes, Jane
today is working in N'acelle manufacturing in Plant C instead
of preparing herself for college and a career in interior decorat­ing
as she had planned.
"There are so many people that seem indif­ferent
about the war," she said. "If they could
have the war personalized and brought home to
them as I have, I am sure they would really go
'all out' in their effol'ts to help lick the Axis.
"Six short months ago I had six boy friends
-good boys all of them-who went into the
armed services shortly after war was declared.
It doesn't matter what branch they went into­army,
navy or marines-it's all the same. Three
of those b9YS were my classmates at Barberton
High school, two of them are dead, and two oth-
Jane Cleckner ers reported missing. The other boy, my best girl
friend's brother, is dead. That is why the war comes straight
home to me. That is why I am willing to do every thing I can
to help the battle of production."
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Built Planes Before Taking Position At Aircraft
George H. Robinson, in special development school at Plant
D, has been with Goodyear eighteen years but this is the first
time he has been able to work at his hobby-airplane building.
He was employed in the shipping room in 1924, transferred to
the production squadron in 1925 and in 1927 was
one of 43. squadron men sent to Wolverhampton,
England, to OJlen the new plant there.
George was graduated from the squadron
while in England and after seven months was
called back to Akron and sent on truck tire
supervision. Later he went to the Jackson, Mich.,
pl!lnt as for~man of truck tires and stayed there
until he came to Aircraft in May.
Flying has been George's hobby, and he has
been good at it. He and another Goodyear man
succeeded in building two airplanes. They built
everything with the exception of the motor, which
they bought. As proof they built .good ships they Rubinson
entered one of them in the 1928 air races in Cleveland and
piloted by a professional pilot, their entry won fifth place in th~
light plane class.
Death Calls Father
Of l.t. Col. Tremelin
Odell G. Tremelin, 75, father
of Col. M. D. Tremelin, 1·esident
representative of the army air
forces, died Saturday afternoon
at his home at 2214 Sixth street,
Cuyahoga Falls.
Funeral services were held
Monday afternoon. Burial was
in Oakwood cemetery.
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GET SERVICE PJNS
Three Plant C men last week
received service pins, emble­matic
of their years with Good­year.
P. E. Yagger, foreman of
the sheet metal hand forming
shop, was awarded his 20-year
pin, while a 10-year pin went to
J. C. McKay, chief of inspection
department. H. A. Davidson, die
proving and maintenance, re­ceived
his five-year pin.
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i WEEKLY REMINDERS ' : I
I When yo~'re green, i
{ you're growing. When i
j you're ripe, you're ready
1
;
t to rot.
i All work and no play 1
: makes jack, and plenty of t l it. i
i The Japs have large 1:
i teeth, but it's possible for
t anyone to bite off more r1
? than he can chew. {
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-KEEP ' EM FLY ING-Virginia
Vinson, personnel,
Plant B, was graduated from
the Tanner High School and
Glenville State Teachers Col­lege
in West Virginia and for
the last seven years has been
teaching the first grade in the
Girard, Ohio, school. Virginia
came to Aircraft June 3.
BACKER TROPHY
IS COPPED BY
TIRES FOREMEN
Aircraft Crew, However,
Is Winner Of Hot Soft·
ball StruCJCJle
Athletic honors at the annual
play day of the Foremen's Club,
Sunday at Mayfair Country
Club were shared equally by
members representing Good­year's
Tire and Aircraft divi­sions
.
The .golfing gang match and
possession of the Al Backer
trophy was won by the men
from Tires while the softball
game was won by Aircraft after
a bitter struggle.
There was no doubting the
superiority of the Tiremen gn
the links. Although Wait Linke
of Plant D was the day's medal­ist,
the winners toured the May­fair
layout six strokes per man
lower than their Aircraft op­ponents.
Average score of the Tiremen
was 89.1 strokes while the Air­crafters
needed 96.1 strokes to
finish 18 holes.
Close Battle
Aircraft pushed across A
winning tally in the last .of -
seventh to edge the T1remen
7-6 in a closely contested
struggle. Harvey and Ljppert
shared the pitching assignment
and Plappert the catching
duties for Aircraft. George
Thompson and George Belhu­meur
were the Tire hurlers and
Dick Budd the catcher.
Trophy for the closest shot
to the cup on the No. 4 hole
was won by Charles Kemper.
Walt Linke's 34-37-71 score was
the day's low.
Rain Sunday morning held
the attendance down to some
extent but everyone reported an
excellent time when the sun
made its appearance in the
afternoon.
A re-match of the rival soft­ball
squads is scheduled for
the club's annual corn rQlllA
which will be held in Augusfll9
September.
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The extremely wet weather
has made it most difficult to
cultivate this spring. Lack of
cultivation tends to not only
pack down the soil, which pre­vents
aeriation, but encourages
weed growth.
If the garden is too wet to
cultivate, the weeds must be
pulled, which is a most dis­tasteful
job to an experienced
gardener, and an impossibility
to a real farmer. After the
weeds have been pulled the
ground dries .quickly and cul­tivation
may usually follow in
a few days.
As soon as the ground dries
sufficiently, extensive cultiva­tion_.
which will destroy the
small weeds, should follow.
Arsenate of lead, with lime
added according to instructions
on the package, should be used
to spray potatoes. With addi­tional
lime. added to the mix­ture,
beans likewise can be
sprayed for bean beetles.
As soon as the delphinium
flowers are cut for table deco­rations,
the spikes should be cut
back to the top of the ground.
This encom·ages a s e c o n d
growth of blooms later this
summer.

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AIRCRAFT EDITION
AMERICA FIRST IN THE Al&
AKRON, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1942 No. 25
Marlene gives a spirited plea .for everyone to
buy bonds to help win the war. The respotfse to
her plea is very enthusiastic.
Jean Weddington and Thana Davenport
take a ride in a jeep. Both of these women
are liberal buyers of War Bonds.
Jeeps hard on hose, Marlene, wearing Aircraft's Eight
says Charlotte Boe- Ball, gets a bouquet of flowers from
deker. the girls sellin&' War Bonds.
MOVIE STAR GIVES BOND DRIVE IMPETUS
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.. -..Nl._.C.-1t· Marlene Dietrich, In Spirited Plea To Alrcrafters
Buy Shares In American Victory,
Scores 119 Success
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To FIRST FULL AIR SCOUT SQUADRON
GETS CHARTER II ARMORY TONIGHT
An Aircraft company picnic, The War Bond Drive, of jeeps Saturday after-t
for alJ employees and their fam­ilies
on all sh~fts, will 'Qe held
at Summit Beach Park early in
August, Bid E'dmund, manager
of employe activities said today.
started at Aircraft last noon.
week, got a big lift from The lovely Marlene drew
the visit of Marlene Diet- a huge crowd to the review­rich,
movie star, and a flock ing stand outdoors between
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Mrs. Jean Weddington, employed in accounts payable, Plant
D, who "signed up" her pay each week for War Bonds, when
Marlene Dietrich gave impetus to the bond drive Saturday, is the
wife of Colonel L. D. Weddington of the air corps, now with
Uncle Sam's forces somewhere in the Pacific.
"Being in the army these many years, and in
Hawaii on December 7," said Mrs. Weddington
to The Clan, "I perhaps realize more fu lly than
some persons the importance of each one dqing
his part toward winning' this war. ·
"I figured that to my part in winning the
war was to come to a place like Akron, where
there is a great variety of jobs, hoping there
~ would be one for me.
"Since my working is toward my part in the
war, then quite naturally my entire salary will
go into War Bonds. All this is the easiest sort
of thing, and· I can't feel that it is anything
unusual in the way of patriotism.
"The time that I considered my patriotism was tested was
when (although I was given a deferment and could have stayed
in Hawaii) I made up my mind to leave my husband and return
to the mainland.
"I left because T felt I would only have been a mental hazard
in an emergency and in.would have taken as much food for me
~ as for a soldier who . is of military use over there.
"My daughter, Mrs. F. B. Shifflet, Jr., and my son, Jim , also
employed at Aircraft, are putting all they can into War Bonds.
"Can anyone do less?"
the plants.
The little jeeps, driving fu­riously
over the airport, turn­ing
on a dime, stopping within
their own length, gave addi ­tional
stimulus to the drive,
because everybody who signed
up that afternoon was giv"m a
ride.
The group of girls writing
up pay deduction blanks we;·e
kept busy two hours, RS :nen
and women from t he four
plants thronged in to sign up
for bonds and get their jeep
ride.
Featured was Thana Daven­port,
Plant C, whose husbanJ
is an army captain in the Pa­cific,
who, receiving three checks
at the same time for overseas
bonus, promptly decided that
she could best support her hus­band's
efforts by putting $1.000
into bonds.
Also Jean Weddington, Plant
D accounting, whose husband
is in the air corps overseas,
gives her every pay check en­tirely
for bonds.
The rally, which welcomed
Miss Dietrich, was in charge of
the labor-management commit­(
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Long a leader in the Boy
Scouts movement in America,
Akron and Goodyear step into
the national limelight tonight
at th2 Armo1·y with presenta­tion
of the charter of the first
full Air Scout Squadron in the
United States to P. W Litch­field,
chairman of the Goodyear
board.
The Goodyear Air Scout
Squadron, which w:ll be com­missioned
as the No. 1 Squad­ron
of the nation, was started
last fall with the approval of
the national executive commit­tee
of the Boy Scouts of
America. It comprises 38 boys,
headed by Squadron Leader
John R. Porosky. Ward T. Van
Orman is chairman of the
Squadron Committee.
Tonight's ceremonies, which
are being held under the aus­pices
of the national and .Akron
area counc'. ls of the Boy Scouts
of America, are expected to at­trnct
more than 4,0JO persons,
including aviation, rubber, civ ic
and Boy Scout executives.
Harter to Speak
The principal address will be
made by Congressman Dow
Harter, who will discuss the
significance of Air Scouting in
the new air age. Other speakers
will be Dr. James E. West,
chief scout executive; Lieuten­ant
George S. Welch, one of the
American air heroes of Pearl
Harbor, who is a former Boy
Scout, and Frank Hoover, vice
president of national council,
who -will present the official
charter to Mr. Litchfield.
John S. Knight, publisher of
the Beacon Journal, will serve
as master of ceremonies, while
Ralph S. Leonard, Akron coun­cil
president, will preside.
The programs w 11 be inter­spersed
with colorful pageant
and tableaux presentations by
members of Akron Boy Scout
troops numbering more than
400 youths.
Mr. Litchfield, as a member
of the national executive board,
is credited with being one of the
first men in the nation to see
the value of the Air Scout pro­g-
ram and urged the organi­zation.
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Now that the red blood of
America's sons has flowed, and
the eyes of t hou·sands of Ameri­can
mothers have filled with
tears, we, too, must stand ready
to make sacrifices.
We will have to work harder
and longer, yes, even on holi­days.
We must do without ma­terials
needed for military
purposes. The things we have
must be conserved.
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COLLEGE STAFF
TRAINING GROUP
NOW COMPLETED
First Contingent Under , Jones
Of Salary Personnel Is
Ready For Work
The first contingent of a spe­cial
college staff training group
has been completed, under the
supervision of C. G. "Charlie"
Jones, salary personnel, Plant
B. The group includes en­gineering
graduates from col­leges
all over the country, and,
after a four week's course that
will take them into nearly
every department at Aircraft,
they will be assigned to the de­partments
for w.hich they are
best su:ted.
For the purpose of getting
the men better acquainted, a
get-together party was held for
them Friday evening at Young's
Hotel.
There are 36 men in this first
group. The names of the men
aqd the colleges they repre­sent
follow:
Akron University- Charles Beckwith,
John Burkley, William King and Ed­ward
Wolf.
Ohio State-Philip P atch and Rich­ard
Haldet.
Ohio University- Wendell Brewer
and Bert Coffman.
Cincinnati University- Harry Biery,
John Guran and Bernard Raffel.
Texaa A. & M.-Homer Cates and
Jack Hammond.
Georgia Tech-Robert Kempton and
Jim W-eddington.
Illlnols Institute of Technology­Jack
Sorenson and Ted Zelinski.
Northwestern University-Christian
Petersen and Richard Fahrbach.
Yale--Martin Trachtenberg and Ed­ward
Pope Jr.
Kentucky University- Carl Staker.
Pittoburgh University- George Pro-best
and Joseph Sire.
Michigan State--Frank McCabe.
Iowa University- James Jorgenson.
Wisconsin University- Herbert John-son.
Clemson University-Benjamin Hy­der.
Colorado School of Mines-J ames
Hontas.
Ohio Northern-George Fiedler.
Illinois University- Marcellus Lech-tenberir
and Robert Feagan.
Purdue University- Art Edwards.
Duke University-Gordon CumminKa.
Pennsylvania University- John Bax-ter.
Columbia University- Robert Ames.
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Swindler Appointed
Engineer, Plant C
A. E. Swindler of Dept. 819
has been appointed engineer of
Plant C and will report directly
to E. G. Drake.
The following department
managers will report directly to
Swindler: H. W. Brown, tool
procurement; D. E. Dolle, plant
planning; T. A. Kolins, equip­ment
control; R. M. Rutherford,
power house.
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Wernecke Appointed
Hourly Payroll Head
A. H. Wernecke has been ap­pointed
manager of the hourly
payroll departments of all
plants in the Akron di vis ion of
Aircraft. He shares authority
over the hourly payroll super­visors
with the respective works
accountants for purposes of co­ordination
and standardization
of hourly payroll activities.
Wernecke in his new position
'Yill be responsible to J. E.
Caldwell, assistant comptroller.
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G. L. Warner was assistant
lilales manager and merchandiser
for a local department store be­fore
coming to Aircraft to work
in materials, Plant A, last
month. Warner enjoys ltunting
and fishing for recreation as
well as all outdoor sports.
Two Well-Known Aircraft Men Receive 25-Year Service Awards
J. V. Stout and H. E. Blythe Clyde Martin and 0. W. Weyrick
Two well-known Ai r c raft
men last week received dia­mond-
studded service pins and
$100 in cash in recognition of
their 25 years' service with the
Goodyear organization.
Harry E. Blythe, vice presi­dent
and general manager, made
the presentation to J. V. Stout,
superintendent of Plant C,
while Clyde Martin, manager of
traffic, shipping and ware­houses,
received his pin from
0. W. Weyrick, manager of
production planning.
Stout was born in 1892 in
Lancaster, Pa., and came to
Goodyear in 1917 on the produc­tion
squadron. The following
year he left to assist in chem­ical
warfare w.ork for the gov­ernment,
returning to the squad­ron
in 1919. Following his
graduation from the squadron
he went into the efficiency de­partment,
and in that work to
the California plant. In 1927
he was made personnel man­ager
there, returning to Akron
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